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Willem Drees

1886 - 1988

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Willem Drees Sr. (; 5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958. Drees was elected to the House of Representatives for the SDAP in the 1933 general election and served as a frontbencher and spokesperson for social affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Drees has received more than 252,906 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Willem Drees is the 5,281st most popular politician (down from 4,949th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 205th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Willem Drees ranks 5,281 out of 15,577. Before him are Hermann II, Count of Celje, Gerberga of Saxony, Philip William, Prince of Orange, Vologases IV, Matthias Erzberger, and Dhu Nuwas. After him are Sverker II of Sweden, As-Salih Ayyub, Viktor Abakumov, Tiridates I of Armenia, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, and Birsa Munda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Willem Drees ranks 59. Before him are Marcel Dupré, Erich Fellgiebel, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Mary Wigman, Nobutake Kondō, and Karl Korsch. After him are Nikolay Gumilyov, Werner Kempf, Frank Lloyd, Edward Bach, Georg Stumme, and Frank Nitti. Among people deceased in 1988, Willem Drees ranks 49. Before him are Jean-Michel Basquiat, Isamu Noguchi, John Carradine, Dino Grandi, Karl August Wittfogel, and Giuseppe Saragat. After him are Ana Aslan, Chico Mendes, Heo Jeong, Trường Chinh, Bacha Khan, and Branko Zebec.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Drees ranks 215 out of 1,427. Before him are Willem Kalf (1619), Theo Jansen (1948), Jan Janszoon (1570), Philips Wouwerman (1619), Erwin Koeman (1961), and Philip William, Prince of Orange (1554). After him are Nicolaes Maes (1634), Gerard van Swieten (1700), Patrick Kluivert (1976), Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577), Tom Gehrels (1925), and Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (1627).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Willem Drees ranks 28. Before him are Pim Fortuyn (1948), Ruud Lubbers (1939), Peter Stuyvesant (1612), Anton Mussert (1894), Joan Blaeu (1596), and Philip William, Prince of Orange (1554). After him are Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (1824), Abraham Kuyper (1837), Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (1627), Alexander, Prince of Orange (1851), John II, Count of Holland (1247), and William II, Duke of Bavaria (1365).

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